It’s here at last! Best Erotic Comics 2008 has arrived at the Last Gasp warehouse. It’s available for sale at Last Gasp, and is already available at many locations and online stores, including Powell’s and Amazon.
A literary and artistic exploration of human sexuality — and a fun dirty book, featuring today’s smartest, raunchiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, and most arousing adult comics! Best Erotic Comics 2008 smashes the divide between literary/art comics and adult comics by including both the hottest work from the literary/art comics world — and the highest-quality work from the adult comics world. Artists include Daniel Clowes, Phoebe Gloeckner, Gilbert Hernandez, Michael Manning, Toshio Saeki, Colleen Coover, Ellen Forney, and many others. The wide variety includes work that’s kinky and vanilla, sweet and perverse, and straight, lesbian, and gay. Features recent comics, a handful of vintage Hall of Fame gems — and some works never published before! 200 pages. Color and b&w.
Work by: Belasco, Marzia Borino & Mauro Balloni, Susannah Breslin, Katie Carmen, Cephalopod Products, Daniel Clowes, Vince Coleman, Colleen Coover, John Cuneo, Dave Davenport, El Bute, Jessica Fink, Ellen Forney, Phoebe Gloeckner, Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa, Justin Hall, Gilbert Hernandez, Molly Kiely, Ralf Konig, Dale Lazarov & Steve MacIsaac, Michael Manning, Erika Moen, Quinn, Sandez Rey, Trina Robbins, Toshio Saeki, and Dori Seda. Cover art by Ellen Forney.
I’m immensely proud of this book, and am delighted with how it turned out. I think I really did do what I set out to accomplish: make an adult comics collection that’s both arty and dirty, with comics that will make you think, make you grin, and make you want to whack off. And everyone who’s seen the book has commented on its tremendous variety: not just a variety of sexual preferences and practices, but a variety of moods and stories and artistic styles.
Mazel Tov, sweetie.
Darnit, I was just about to email you for details about submission guidelines — I just had a couple of fabulous ideas for some short-subject erotic comics. I even started the sketches…
Oh well, I guess this means I have plenty of time to finish them up for next years’ edition. 😉
Congrats on getting it finished — it sounds fantastic!!! I assume you’ll be posting about how to order copies (including shipping to Europe)…?
Actually, C.L., I’m just now finishing up my decision process about the 2009 edition. So if you got a submission to me in the next week or so, there’d still be time. And if you can’t make it by then, there’s always 2010…
You can order the book from the publisher, Last Gasp, and they’ll ship to Europe. The link is in the post, but here it is again:
http://www.lastgasp.com/d/31525/
And you can also order it from Powell’s or Amazon — including Amazon in the U.K. or France. (And presumably other Amazons — I only checked those two.)